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  • noun Plural form of sensualism.

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  • All his thoughts and imaginations, if they extend beyond mere beaverisms, astucities and sensualisms, are false, incomplete, perverse, untrue even to himself.

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • … it seems certain that Europe will continue to sink into its demographic twilight, and increasingly to look like the land of the "last men" that Nietzsche prophesied would follow the "death of God": a realm of sanctimony, petty sensualisms, pettier rationalisms, and a vaguely euthanasiac addiction to comfort.

    orrologion 2009

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